In recent weeks, MEND’s Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) have received hundreds of reports from students and parents across the country highlighting the approach of many schools in curtailing or prohibiting expressions of Palestinian solidarity and shutting down debate rather than engaging...
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, better known as the Culture Secretary, is an important Cabinet position. The holder of the role is responsible for overseeing a range of cultural institutions, such as libraries, sports, and museums, but also particularly importantly for...
After a 20-year occupation in Afghanistan, the last US military flight left Kabul airport on 31 August 2021. The withdrawal marks the end of the contentious ‘mission’ of the global War on Terror that began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 11 September 2001. The overt focus on Muslims...
Jake Davidson, aged 22, shot dead five people in Plymouth, on 12th August 2021, before turning the gun on himself. Amongst his victims were two women, including his 51-year-old mother, two men and a 3-year-old girl. Having described the murders as a “domestic” incident initially, subsequent...
The Scottish Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf, has launched legal proceedings against a pre-school nursery in Dundee over suspicions of racial discrimination. He alleges the nursery has breached the Equality Act 2010, stating that they refused three children with Muslim-sounding names, yet those with...
Concerns rise as MPs have voted in favour of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill – which many have ruled ‘draconian’. Labour and Liberal Democrats made efforts to amend the current provisions of the Bill – however, this was rejected in the voting lobbies of the House of...
Following the England national football team’s heroic loss in the European Championship final, there has been concern over the spike in racial abuse faced by BAME communities. After Marcus Rashford, Jordan Sancho, and Bukayo Saka missed crucial penalties, a minority of England fans began...
Outlined in the Queen’s speech, the UK Government recently announced that voters would soon be required to present an ID at polling stations as part of the upcoming Electoral Integrity Bill. The Government has argued that the proposed measures will help to “protect voters” and help...
The recent referral of an 11 year-old Muslim school pupil to PREVENT, after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion, has thrown further light on the problems within the UK’s counterterror programme. Such enforcement of PREVENT does significant damage to...
Following the reinstatement of Trevor Phillips to the Labour Party having been suspended for Islamophobia, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) has written to the General Secretary of the Labour Party and Sir Keir Starmer to express grave concerns that the reinstatement occurs without any...
Following the reinstatement of Trevor Phillips to the Labour Party having been suspended for Islamophobia, MEND has written to the General Secretary of the Labour Party and Sir Keir Starmer to express our grave concern that he has been reinstated without any apology or explanation, and without the...
